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...student pilot flying a Piper Cub, Correspondent David Lee recalls, he was always "scaring the breath out of my instructor" and landing in "hop-it-in" style. Recently Lee, who covered the Apollo program for TIME, was back in Houston at the controls of NASA'S new, "reusable" spaceship. The old hop-it-in landing did not work when he tried to bring down the giant spaceship, and he crashed. Fortunately the flight was simulated, and Lee was not only able to walk away but also to file a report for this week's story in Science, written...
Though the tax base has been growing at 5% a year, the city still has had to postpone about $30 million in capital expenditures-including street improvements-to avoid layoffs or cuts in public services this year. City Administrative Officer C. Erwin Piper predicts that to balance its budget next year Los Angeles will either have to trim some services or raise property taxes again; they went up nearly 10% in August...
Weed Killers. Several chemical firms have given cash and gifts to Illinois and Wisconsin state officials who bought the firms' weed killers and deicers. So far, 70 highway superintendents, sheriffs, sewer-plant supervisors -and even the mayors of the towns of Piper City and Rankin, Ill.-have admitted collecting bribes in return for approving official purchases at prices from two to five times competitive levels...
...abuse the ear. The screenplay, by the Pulitzer-prizewrnning playwright Paul Zindel, is full of inexcusable dialogue ("I haven't got you anything for Christmas yet, but how about a kiss on account?" "You know who Mame is-she's the Pied Piper"). Beatrice Arthur, the rage right now as television's Maude, brings the movie to life whenever she appears. Her voice-that of a Marine D.I. with social ambitions-can coax a belly laugh from a wheeze. She tucks Mame under her arm and walks away with it, although not far enough...
...desired. As one Pentagon official puts it: "The Cambodians are fighting with the biggest museum of junk you ever saw." Their air force, for instance, consists of 20 or so pre-Korean-War-vintage T-28 fighter-bombers, a few DC-3s that have been converted into gunships, and Piper Cubs that are used for aerial reconnaissance...